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U.S. Space Force Guardians assigned to Space Delta 5 monitor computer workstations Dec. 18, 2025, at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif. (Photo by David Dozoretz)

Space Force creates office to accelerate innovative tech acquisition

“It will be empowered just as the PAEs, it will be a peer to the PAEs and it will be 100% focused on that valley of death,”…

3 days ago By Mikayla Easley

Lt. Gen. Douglas A. Schiess faces a Senate Armed Services Committee nomination hearing on Capitol Hill, July 16, 2026. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Congress confirms Schiess as third-ever chief of space operations

Lt. Gen. Doug Schiess will take over from Gen. Chance Saltzman as head of the Space Force.

Aug 7, 2026 By Mikayla Easley